Rachel Kalisher Author

Daniel M. Master is Jonathan Blanchard Professor of Archaeology at Wheaton College and was codirector of the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon from 2007 to 2016. He currently oversees the publication of the Ashkelon final report series and is codirector of the ongoing excavations at Tel Shimron. He is also coeditor of Dothan I: Remains from the Tell (1953–1964) and general editor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Archaeology.

Adam J. Aja is Chief Curator at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East and chief stratigrapher at the Tel Shimron excavations. He served as grid supervisor and later as assistant director for the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon. He also worked for several seasons at the Tel Miqne-Ekron excavations and at Tel Tayinat in Turkey.

Rachel Kalisher is a bioarchaeologist whose research focuses on life history, kinship, and maternity in antiquity. She has been with the Ashkelon team since 2015 and is also the staff bioarchaeologist at the nearby Tel Shimron and Tel Megiddo excavations.